June 04, 2017

Cubs 5 Cardinals 2 on Schwarber's Grand Scwham.

SO much crazy happened Saturday.Before the game came the news of Kyle Schwarber moving to the 9 hole and Addison Russell platooning at short with Javier Baez. Not bombshells really, but glad Joe Maddon's doing something to address the lackluster bats.Then the game starts and right away home plate ump Dana DeMuth's strike zone makes you glad he's not your pilot, while at the same the Cardinals are really truly gonna try to rattle Jon Lester by bunting.To Jon Lester's credit, he let Maddon do the yelling from the dugout.But the bases were loaded when Jose Martinez hit a blooping weaky to the outfield that scored 2.

Cubs did nothing til Javier Baez hit a gorgeously not-pulled 420-something footer to center.Which was countered by Yadier Molina's homer in the 6th.So it was 1-3 Cards in the bottom of the 7th when Heyward and Contreras single and Mike Leake hits his 2nd Cub - this time Jon Jay - to load the bases with 2 out and a lefty bat in a season long slump comes up to hit.That would be Kyle Schwarber.Would Mike Metheney take out righty Leake and bring in a lefty?Because for sure Maddon woulda pinch hit for Schwarber.No.And Leake's first pitch turned into the storybook dream you have when you're 9 - a freaking 400 foot bomb grand salami to center field.Len and JD said he could be excused for admiring it, because he did for a moment, and then I could hear the fans at Wrigley Field all the way out here in Portage Park.

Cubs 5 Cards 3 and that's how it ends.SO COOL!

The other amazing thing that happened? Jon Lester is standing on the mound looking over at Tommy Pham standing in the base path, only Tommy Pham is almost 20 feet off first base. In dog years, that's about the length of the John Hancock building. Anthony Rizzo is pleading with Lester to throw it over and... he does.Pham is out, and Lester gets to do the "don't eff with me" look into the Cardinal dugout as he walked off the diamond.I've never been so proud of a Cub doing something most little leaguers can do.But I was over this problem last year, this Lester not being able to throw to first thing.If it doesn't bother him, it doesn't bother me.

So 2 wins in a row vs the Arch Enemy on the weekend the weather finally felt like Summer is just the thing we all needed.

And in other news, ex-Arch Enemy Albert Pujols hit homer #600, a grand slam, on the same day 6 other guys (including Schwarber) hit grand slams.

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Cubs 5 Cardinals 2 on Schwarber's Grand Scwham.

SO much crazy happened Saturday.Before the game came the news of Kyle Schwarber moving to the 9 hole and Addison Russell platooning at short with Javier Baez. Not bombshells really, but glad Joe Maddon's doing something to address the lackluster bats.Then the game starts and right away home plate ump Dana DeMuth's strike zone makes you glad he's not your pilot, while at the same the Cardinals are really truly gonna try to rattle Jon Lester by bunting.To Jon Lester's credit, he let Maddon do the yelling from the dugout.But the bases were loaded when Jose Martinez hit a blooping weaky to the outfield that scored 2.

Cubs did nothing til Javier Baez hit a gorgeously not-pulled 420-something footer to center.Which was countered by Yadier Molina's homer in the 6th.So it was 1-3 Cards in the bottom of the 7th when Heyward and Contreras single and Mike Leake hits his 2nd Cub - this time Jon Jay - to load the bases with 2 out and a lefty bat in a season long slump comes up to hit.That would be Kyle Schwarber.Would Mike Metheney take out righty Leake and bring in a lefty?Because for sure Maddon woulda pinch hit for Schwarber.No.And Leake's first pitch turned into the storybook dream you have when you're 9 - a freaking 400 foot bomb grand salami to center field.Len and JD said he could be excused for admiring it, because he did for a moment, and then I could hear the fans at Wrigley Field all the way out here in Portage Park.

Cubs 5 Cards 3 and that's how it ends.SO COOL!

The other amazing thing that happened? Jon Lester is standing on the mound looking over at Tommy Pham standing in the base path, only Tommy Pham is almost 20 feet off first base. In dog years, that's about the length of the John Hancock building. Anthony Rizzo is pleading with Lester to throw it over and... he does.Pham is out, and Lester gets to do the "don't eff with me" look into the Cardinal dugout as he walked off the diamond.I've never been so proud of a Cub doing something most little leaguers can do.But I was over this problem last year, this Lester not being able to throw to first thing.If it doesn't bother him, it doesn't bother me.

So 2 wins in a row vs the Arch Enemy on the weekend the weather finally felt like Summer is just the thing we all needed.

And in other news, ex-Arch Enemy Albert Pujols hit homer #600, a grand slam, on the same day 6 other guys (including Schwarber) hit grand slams.

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